"Poor man on crutches cries out his song in the street during a thunderstorm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from similar prints after Joe Lisle that were published by Berthoud & Son in 1828. Cf. No. 15624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a later state published in 1830 by S. Gans, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.43., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Handicapped.
Title from item., Above image: Puck., Published in Puck, 28 August 1881., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, U.S.A.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894. and Tanner, James, 1844-1927
Subject (Topic):
Pensions, Disabled veterans, Quacks and quackery, Polilticians, Disabled persons, Healing, Money, Peg legs, Crutches, and Politics and government
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from subject., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Devambez, Imp. Paris
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918, Tuberculosis, Veterans, Disabled veterans, Nurses, and Oceans
A furious veteran with a wooden leg and bandaged eye and a maid servant attack Sir Cecil Wray with a crutch and a broom, respectively. The maid stands on a piece of paper inscribed,"Tax on servants" and in front of a padlocked door to the "Register Off[ice] for Maid Serv[ants]." On the opposite side of the image, in the background, is the crumbling building of the Chelsea Hospital. A reference to Sir Cecil's proposals to tax the employers of maid servants and to close the Chelsea Hospital that housed disabled veterans
Alternative Title:
Sir Cecil chastised
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published April 2nd, 1784, by Willm Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England).
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Disabled veterans, Servants, Peg legs, Crutches, Brooms & brushes, and Politicians
"In a bare but neat ale-house room three Greenwich pensioners are in deep and heated discussion at a table before the fire. They point to fragments of pipe stem, arranged to show the position of ships in some engagement. Two sit, one stands; two have peg-legs. A fourth man (left) watches intently. The host (right) enters with frothing tankards."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
In the foreground, the veterans with wooden legs and on crutches try to get away from the crumbling facade of the Chelsea Hospital. Several of them lie on the ground crushed by the fallen columns. In the background, a group of women, outraged by the proposal to abolish the Chelsea Hospital and to tax employers of maid servants, attacks with brooms and a slop jar the proposal's author, Sir Cecil Wray
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 30th, 1784, by Mrs. Dacheray, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805 and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Disabled veterans, Peg legs, Servants, Chamber pots, and Building failures
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[May 1790]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 53 Box D305
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty young woman sits facing left under a tree and talks to an elderly pensioner with a little girl sitting on his knee. Behind the young woman another girl stands listening. Both young women are well-dressed with large hats and muffs. On the extreme left a small boy stands behind the pensioner presenting arms with a long pole. A dog sits at the pensioner's feet
Description:
Title from ink inscription in the artist's hand below image. and Signed by the artist.
Subject (Topic):
Disabled veterans, Crutches, Boys, Dogs, and Women
Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
Description:
Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.